Count and concatenate MySQL entries - php

Question

Essentially, I have a table that is like this:
FirstName, LastName, Type
Mark, Jones, A
Jim, Smith, B
Joseph, Miller, A
Jim, Smith, A
Jim, Smith, C
Mark, Jones, C
What I need to do is be able to display these out in PHP/HTML, like:
Name | Total Count Per Name | All Type(s) Per Name
which would look like...
Mark Jones | 2 | A, C
Jim Smith | 3 | B, A, C
Joseph Miller | 1 | A
Jim Smith | 3 | B, A, C
Jim Smith | 3 | B, A, C
Mark Jones | 2 | A, C
I have spent time trying to create a new table based off the initial one, adding these fields, as well as looking at group_concat, array_count_values, COUNT, and DISTINCT, along with other loop/array options, and cannot figure this out.
I've found a number of answers that count and concatenate, but the problem here is I need to display each row with the total count/concatenation on each, instead of shortening it.

Answer 1

How about doing it like this?
SELECT aggregated.* FROM table_name t
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT
CONCAT(FirstName, ' ', LastName) AS Name,
COUNT(Type) AS `Total Count Per Name`,
GROUP_CONCAT(Type SEPARATOR ',') AS `All Type(s) Per Name`
FROM table_name
GROUP BY Name) AS aggregated
ON CONCAT(t.FirstName, ' ', t.LastName) = aggregated.Name

Answer 2

Without an ORDER BY clause, the order the rows will be returned in is indeterminate. Nothing wrong with that, by my personal preference is to have the result to be repeatable.
We can use an "inline view" (MySQL calls it a derived table) to get the count and the concatenation of the Type values for (FirstName,LastName).
And then perform a join operation to match the rows from the inline view to each row in the detail table.
SELECT CONCAT(d.FirstName,' ',d.LastName) AS name
, c.total_coount_per_name
, c.all_types_per_name
FROM mytable d
JOIN ( SELECT b.FirstName
, b.LastName
, GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT b.Type ORDER BY b.Type) AS all_types_per_name
, COUNT(*) AS total_count_per_name
FROM mytable b
GROUP
BY b.FirstName
, b.LastName
) c
ON c.FirstName = d.FirstName
AND c.Last_name = d.LastName
ORDER BY d.FirstName, d.LastName
If you have an id column or some other "sequence" column, you can use that to specify the order the rows are to be returned; same thing in the GROUP_CONCAT function. You can omit the DISTINCT keyword from the GROUP_CONCAT if you want repeated values... 'B,A,B,B,C',